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  • Dante's Purgatorio

    by Philip Terry ...
    A sequel to Philip Terry's Dante's Inferno (2014), where Dante relocates to the University of Essex, here the action shifts from Dante's Island of Purgatory to Mersea Island, in Essex still, where the poet and his guide Ted Berrigan climb a mountain made out of Flexible Rock Substitute (FRS). Dante's artists are replaced with contemporary artists and artists-in-residence on the Essex Alp, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare's Sonnets

    by Philip Terry ...
    Inspired by the flotsam of contemporary culture, journalism, and spam emails, this collection of poetry transforms Shakespeare's sonnet sequence into a celebration of the possibilities of language unleashed. Shakespeare's themes of fading beauty, posterity, immortality, and death find their modern-day responses in celebrity gossip, consumer products, vampirism, and the credit crunch. Dynamic and ... Read more

    $17.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dante's Inferno

    by Philip Terry ...
    Following his irreverent, inspired Oulipean reworking of Shakespeare's sonnets, in his new book Philip Terry takes on Dante's Inferno, shifting the action from the 12th to the 20th and 21st centuries, and relocating it to the modern "walled city" of the University of Essex. Dante's Phlegethon becomes the river Colne; his popes are replaced by vice-chancellors and ministers for education; the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dictator

    by Philip Terry ...
    Dictator recreates Gilgamesh using the 1,500-word vocabulary of Globish, put together by Jean-Paul Nerrière. Globish is a business language, appropriate to translate cuneiform which emerged from the need to record business transactions. Nerrière considered it the world dialect of the third millenium; likewise Akkadian, the language of Gilgamesh, was the lingua franca of communications in the Near ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ovid Metamorphosed

    by Philip Terry ...
    The shape-shifting poetry of Ovid's Metamorphoses has fascinated writers and artists from Shakespeare to Ted Hughes, Rembrandt to Picasso. Its eternal freshness is haunted by an ancient idea: that a person's true nature is revealed when their physical shape is changed- the wolf-like man becomes a wolf, the obsessive spinner a spider.For this dazzling collection Philip Terry asked leading writers ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Quennets

    by Philip Terry ...
    The poetic form used in these pages is one invented by Raymond Queneau in his 1975 book Morale élémentaire; it has come to be called the "quennet", after its inventor, as it has one more line than a sonnet. The three sequences which make up this collection experiment with psychogeographical quennets inspired by walking around the Essex estuary and the Berlin Wall Trail, with the final sequence ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inevitable Imposter

    Identify and Defeat Imposter Syndrome

    by PHILIP TERRY-SMITH ...
    Impostor syndrome is the faulty belief that one is a fraud and not deserving of their achievements. Impostor syndrome can be debilitating to one's personal and professional life. It also affects one's mental and physical health and even their relationships in a variety of ways. ... Read more

    $14.89 USD

  • The Work of Death

    by Philip A. Smith, Terry Madden ...
    These unpublished letters home from major battlegrounds of the Civil War provide important primary texts for historians and Civil War buffs. These letters offer a critical view into the day-to-day life of a U.S. artillery soldier who fought at Shiloh, both battles of Corinth, Iuka, and Vicksburg. Available for the first time in print, these letters have been preserved in the soldier's family for ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lascaux Notebooks

    Translated by Philip Terry ...
    by Jean-Luc Champerret ...
    This newest Carcanet Classic collects the oldest poetry yet discovered, as written down or runed in the Ice Age in Lascaux and other caves in the Dordogne, and now translated – tentatively – into English for the first time. The translation is at two removes, from French versions by the mysterious linguistic genius Jean-Luc Champerret, and then from the striking originals that retain such a sense ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tourism in Development: Reflective Essays

    by Brian E M King, Richard Sharpley, David Airey, Thomas Baum, Richard Butler, Donna Chambers, Dora Dongzhi Chen, Erik Cohen0, Larry Dwyer1, Afamefuna Paul Eyisi2, Alison M. Gill3, Ulrike Gretzel4, Joan Henderson5, Carson Jenkins6, Louisa Yee-Sum Lee7, Shaun Mann8, Shelagh Mooney9, Alastair M. Morrison0, Nneoma Grace Ololo1, Philip Pearce2, Hanqin Qiu3, Terry Stevens4, Sienny Thio5, Geoffrey Wall6, Stephen Wanhill7, Allan Williams8, Roy Wood9 ...
    Over the last fifty years, tourism has become firmly established as a development option around the world. Commensurate with this, the study of tourism's developmental role has also expanded significantly. There now exists a broad understanding of the policies and processes, opportunities and challenges that apply to tourism's potential contributions to development. As the tourism environment now ... Read more

    $116.29 USD

  • Twentieth Century

    by Terry Deary ...
    Illustrated by Philip Reeve ...
    Series series Horrible Histories Special
    Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Twentieth Century, including who shocked the world by showing her knickers, how two monkeys and a dog became astronauts and why a posh London restaurant served stewed cat. In ebook format, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Ancient African Metallurgy

    The Sociocultural Context

    by Michael S. Bisson, Terry S. Childs, Philip De Barros, Augustin F.C. Holl, Joseph O. Vogel ...
    Series series African Archaeology Series
    Gold. Copper. Iron. Metal working in Africa has been the subject of both public lore and extensive archaeological investigation. Here, four of the leading contemporary researchers on this topic attempt to provide a complete synthesis of current debates and understandings: Where, how, and when was metal first introduced to the continent? How were iron and copper tools, implements, and objects used ... Read more

    $47.79 USD